Caterers are finding new ways to serve the dessert du jour.

For a fund-raiser in Boston, the Catered Affair set up a doughnut-on-a-stick bar, where guests could top their own treats with colored sugar, candy, and more.
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For the ESPN ESPY Awards preparty in Los Angeles in July, DNA Events set up a golf-inspired display of doughnut holes on toothpick tees on an AstroTurf-covered table.
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At the Museum of Contemporary Art's most recent ArtEdge Gala in Chicago, Jewell Events Catering set up a Pegboard that held chocolate, cinnamon-sugar, glazed, and old-fashioned cake doughnuts.
Photo: Photo: Alain Milotti

Juicy Couture's Gold Coast boutique in Chicago threw an in-store shopping event for customers last year. Truffleberry Market served passed bites, including salted caramel mini doughnuts on hot pink zebra-printed trays.
Photo: Francis Son Photography

Abigail Kirsch in New York repurposed a plate display rack by turning it on its side to hold smoked cheddar-glazed mini doughnuts dusted with peanut brittle.
Photo: Andre Maier Photography

Evoke, the event design and planning company based in Washington, D.C., designed this doughnut wall out of Pegboard, with 1,200 wooden golf tees holding chocolate-glazed, cinnamon-sugar, and powdered doughnuts. A server with a step stool is on hand to pull doughnuts off the wall. Design Cuisine executed the concept.
Photo: Kate Headly